I figure that if the children are alive when I get home I've done my job.

As a housewife I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work then hey I've done my job.

All objects all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

When a man has lost all happiness he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found and each believes it possessed by others to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.